Recently I had the pleasure of working with Global Coffee Report Magazine on their Cover story photoshoot. I photographed UCC Coffee CEO, Paul Molyneux in their Lovely showroom and I really enjoyed my time there as a coffee lover.
Here are some images from the shoot and how they are printed for the cover story.
It’s always exciting to get a phone call from a Magazine in this case from Nederlands.
I’ve been asked to photograph Philip for MSD magazine. We had to wait for the rain to stop to start shooting as it happens quite often but no complaints. We had a lovely light after the rain.
Here are some samples from the shoot as well as a behind-the-scenes image!
I photographed Adi Steif who is a fellow at Trinity College. It was a great opportunity to be able to see the incredibly beautiful Fellow Gardens.
What made me smile was a few other fellows were having a little picnic on the grass and talking about Shakespeare. Happens only in Cambridge!
I was commissioned to take a range of portraits for Multinational Transport Company Ferrovial recently. We created both dark and white backdrop portraits as well as headshots.
Sometimes a room is all I get to create corporate portraits and I’m glad I could fit more than one backdrop in the room to create the different looks for studio portraits. In the end, the setups worked perfectly and we covered a lot in a day!
At the end of the day, it was a productive day! I really enjoyed working with the Ferrovial team and creating some work for them is a privilege!
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Recently I’ve been commissioned by Psyomics and it was a real pleasure working with them on their portraits.
I set up my portable studio in a corridor at their premises and sometimes we don’t even need a backdrop set up! A white wall will do the job nicely as seen in the behind the scenes photos below.
Overall It was a great shoot and we had some lovely results at the end of the day. You can see a few examples below from the day and they are all Covid safe!
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Recently, I had the pleasure to work with Benchmark International for their executive portraits as well as some office shots which will be used on their new website, for publicity and marketing communications.
I spent several days each at their three UK and Ireland branches taking individual headshots of 200 people. They also required office shots in Manchester, Oxford and Cork (Ireland) where I captured people at work and interacting with each other to create a visual sense of their business.
The final part of the job was revisiting Manchester and Oxford for the Executive portraits. We worked on three iconic locations in each city. The shots had to be accomplished quickly and effectively. I appreciate working on a tight time frame and with incorporate environmental condition into the shots. It stimulates me to be more creative to get the perfect shot within the allocated time.
Get in touch with me if your company needs excellent images for your website, publicity or editorial images and I would love to help.
I enjoyed meeting Deepa to take her portrait for my “working from home” project and I couldn’t help capturing her at work. She has a fairly small space but the work she creates there is incredible.
Have a look at her website here and see her amazing handcrafted jewellery here: https://melajewellery.com/
When Hewitsons contacted me to do the corporate headshots for all their staff on their four locations it was clear that it was essential that the headshots were uniform across the locations. We took the photos over four days, over two hundred people in total in four different cities, Cambridge, Northampton, Milton Keynes and London. When doing projects of this size and you need to deliver uniformity, you cannot leave things to chance. The light levels on each location will be different and knowing how to manipulate the light will be primordial to achieve a coherent look.
During a preliminary meeting, Marketing Manager Sarah Head gave me the brief and we agreed on a look that matches the corporate brand. Equipped with my Canon 85mm lens, backdrops and my trusty Profoto B1’s I started the task of shooting eighty-five people in their Cambridge office. Sarah had worked out a minute schedule. With five minutes per person, there is only enough time to work with the person so they feel at ease and you can take that perfect shot. With some people, you do not need five minutes. Sometimes the test shots were the ones we went for!
As time is such a critical factor when you are taking headshots on the client’s premises, I offer the client the chance to select the photos there on the spot and then through tethering the images straight to my laptop.
The days after the shoot was spent in postproduction. However useful Photoshop might be, when it comes to over 200 headshots you do want to get it right on the camera so the postproduction is minimal. Typically, I remove some minor imperfections on the image but do not touch the toning or lighting quality at all as I paid attention to create identical lighting for each image.
The collaboration with Sarah was very pleasant and effective. Thanks to her careful organisation, the shoots went so smooth and the atmosphere was relaxed resulting in high-quality headshots.
If you are looking for headshots for your staff, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. I would love to hear from you.
Recently I have been asked to take some corporate portraits and some PR style images on location for Cambridge based company Annesley Gandon. Over the past several months, I noticed a big increase of enquiries for is PR style images and location portraits. I personally think on site photography is a great marketing tool and one of the easiest ways of communicating the vision of the company without words.
Showing the employees at work gives the clients a good sense of the company and how it feels to work with the particular team or department. I also believe that seeing people at work creates a rapport, builds trust and confidence.
I really enjoyed with Annesley Gandon team and they were extremely helpful and easy to work with. We created a range of portraits, headshots and PR style images for their website, annual reports and social media use. I don’t usually have behind the scene images but this time I was lucky to be photographed at work by the team.
Recently, I had the pleasure to meet David Kirkpatrick in my studio and I took a range of images for his new book. He is a New York Times writer based in London and used to be the New York Times bureau chief in Egypt. His book has just been published which is about the politics in the Middle East.
Here a few samples from the photo shoot which was very enjoyable!
